Spatial@local09 Posters

UCSB Campus Crime

Reported crimes from the 2007–2008 school year are mapped to plot housing safety issues, increase student awareness of historic locations where crimes happen, and increase the campus police and IV Foot Patrol security efficiency.

GIS–based analysis of the Cariaco Basin to explain seawater decrease during the Penultimate Deglaciation

GIS–based analysis of the Cariaco Basin to explain seawater decrease during the Penultimate Deglaciation

The Cariaco Basin, northern coast of Venezuela, reaches depths of approximately 1,400 meters and is anoxic below depths of 250m. The poster examines a hypothesis that increased surface run-off into the basin during deglaciation may have decreased the salinity of surface waters enough to stratify the water column.

Greening Port Trucking by Analysis of GPS Tracks

Greening Port Trucking by Analysis of GPS TracksLinna Li and Val Noronha
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara

An analysis of the location and speed of every MeTris truck, every second of the day, is useful to streamline port operations, improve highway incident management and security, and can impact billions worth of metropolitan infrastructure.

Hardy searches for common patterns of authorship behavior in nearly 1 million geotagged articles across 21 languages from Wikipedia. While current GIS research has focused on technological issues of visualization and data organization, new forms of collective authorship such as collaborative mapping, or “neogeography,” suggests needs for new information frameworks and behaviors.

Campus Interior—3D Visualization Model

With ever advancing computer technology, representation of real world objects in a virtual space has become increasingly easier. Using this technology, a true to life 3D representation of Phelps Hall was constructed for GIS applications.

Sea Level Rise & the American Riviera

This analysis considers three different scenarios for the possible impacts of melting polar icecaps and rising sea levels to the Santa Barbara coastline. Shapefiles for each projected level of sea rise were created in ArcGIS 9.3 using three-meter DEMs of Santa Barbara and Goleta. These were then overlain on specially created human and environmental shapefiles to produce meaningful maps that can be used to make projections.